When I first heard of the Sugar Dunes, I was intrigued. Nestled about 400 kilometres south of Muscat, these mesmerising white ...
It was one of the great exploits of a golden age of exploration: Bertram Thomas, a British diplomat, spent 42 days travelling overland along the coast of Oman. As recorded in his 1928 diary, Thomas ...
The final leg of our journey takes us into Oman’s Empty Quarter, the world’s largest sand desert, north of Dhofar. For this wild camping adventure, we are guided by Mussallem’s son Mohammed.
In the far south of Oman, the Dhofar Mountains rise dramatically from the desert plains, forming the backbone of one of Asia’s most remarkable and unexpected ecosystems: the desert cloud forest.